Rff Press imprint: 89 books
by Edwin T. Haefele
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Interbasin Transfers of Water
Economic Issues and Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Howe and Easter analyze existing evidence on direct and indirect benefits attributable to water, as well as the potential costs of interbasin transfers, and examine feasibility of alternatives. Originally published in 1971
by Clifford S. Russell, Winston Harrington, William J. Vaughn
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Economic models are used to show the extent of the difficulties involved in monitoring and enforcing pollution control laws on a continual basis. The authors make several recommendations for policy change. They also show that high rates of compliance can be achieved within tight budget constraints. Originally published in 1986
A Policy Approach to Political Representation
Lessons from the Four Corners States
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Analyzes the extent to which the voters of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah are concerned about problems associated with development and the extent to which state senators respond to voters' concerns. Originally published in 1980
The Overproduction Trap in U.S. Agriculture
A Study of Resource Allocation from World War I to the Late 1960's
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book emphasizes resource use and efficiency in the agricultural sector and offers facts and analytical concepts of interest to welfare economists, sociologists, and agricultural policy makers. Originally published in 1972
by Wallace F. Lovejoy, Paul T. Homan
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book traces the history and implementation of regulation programs for state crude oil production. Originally published in 1967
Steel Production
Processes, Products, and Residuals
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The authors address the problems of determining the implications of different environmental standards and public policies by investigating their effect on industrial costs and resource use within linear-programming framework. Originally published in 1976
Zoned Out
Regulation, Markets, and Choices in Transportation and Metropolitan Land Use
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Researchers have responded to urban sprawl, congestion, and pollution by assessing alternatives such as smart growth, new urbanism, and transit-oriented development. Underlying this has been the presumption that, for these options to be given serious consideration as part of policy reform, science...
The Seventh Continent
Antarctica in a Resource Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Water Policy in New Mexico
Addressing the Challenge of an Uncertain Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This book addresses water management issues in the State of New Mexico. It focuses on our current understanding of the natural world, capabilities in numerical modeling, existing and evolving regulatory frameworks, and specific issues such as water quality, endangered species and the evolution of...
by Marion Clawson, Jack L. Knetsch
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book is one of the first to supply the means for evaluating recreational resources in economic terms. Originally published in 1967.
Collective Decision Making
Applications from Public Choice Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Stephen Macdonald
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Stephen McDonald offers a basic understanding of the goals and practices by which the federal government leases its fossil fuel resources and how these practices affect the economy. Originally published in 1979
by Marion Clawson
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Clawson is concerned here not so much with what forest policy should be, but more with the criteria by which it should be determined. He lists such questions as how much land to devote to forests, how much timber to harvest and the best means of harvesting it, and the compatibility or incompatibility...